The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-07-17

and Mr.. Stetson stretches YEARLY and pulls
out his cuff on which the number Is written in
ink. It Is Mr. Stetson's first visit here. He says
he only came because he got married. He goes
homo to-day. and will not come back any more.
Some Americans, whom every one knows.
wore gathered at q sale OF effects OF distressed
Irish ladies, held this afternoon In the rooms
OF tho American Exchange Tho Duchess OF
st. Adams and others, OF whom It Is q pleasure
to buy, managed the stalls. Gen. Joseph r..
Hawley bought $50 worth Of goods. Mrs. b.
nanga Mackay bought lot OF things. Mrs.
Frank Leslie invested 500. It was good bust
ness for the distressed ladies.
II tho scheme now on foot is carried through,
tho naval review to come of at Spithead next
Saturday will be honored with the presence Of
noble tugload Of Americans. Blaine. Wayne
Macveagh. Gen. Hawley. Senator Cheney,
David Dudley Field, and lot Of others are to
be included In the tugload.
George M. Pullman has gone back to America
to return in tho fall with his wife and daughter
Florence. w. X. Vanderbilt is here with his
family and his trunks filed the corridor Of the
Metropole. Henry Irving winds up his London
season tonight and says good-by to English
men for the present. The Americans will see
fine thing in his Faust" The stnge setting
has probably never been excelled. He presents
tho Devil as q Jolly gentleman who appreciates
good joke and occasionally makes one. He is
sure to DO more popular than ever. He has not
had monopoly of speechmaking to audiences,
however.
On Thursday Grace Hawthorne, the Ameri-
can, tried her hand. She has taken a lease Of
the Princess Theatre, and opened there on
Monday night with O blood-ourdling New York
drama. Shadows Of a Great City. Blackwell's
Island and all tho villainy took we'll with the
British public, and Miss Hawthorne. who has
any amount Of pluck. was called to the front Of
the curtain. She said it was a big and dam
gerous thing for weak American girl to come
to a big place like this. but just let them wait
awhile and they would see.
Tomorrow Sarah Bernhard comes with her
tiger. and proposes to lodge him in the Hotel
Metropole. The director. who has heard of the
doings Of the beast as chronicled In The SUN.
was worried He telegraDhed Nine. Bernhardt
that she might come. but that he had no &C.
commodation for tigers. Nine. Bernhard said
she had only spotted African cat, whose
board she would pay, and it should sleep in
her room. The cat Is coming. and the guests
Of the Metropole wonder what sized cat it will
turn out to DO. Some Americans arc inter-
ested In the question, as their rooms are
near those which Nine. Bernhard is to
have. Among them are Mr.. Vanderbilt and
his family. H. L. Norton and family. and
Michael P. Grace and wife. There will be gay
times in the Metropole II 1t proves to DO a
maneating tiger cat.
The market in American securities has
been extremely dull throughout the greater
part OF the week. Exchanges have been
depressed by the Bulgarian crisis and
the expectation of trouble in Paris. Since
Thursday exchange has assumed more con-
fdent tone, and the market Is now flrm with
an upward tendency. The belief Is gaining
ground that the Baltimore and Ohio is in the
hands Of Jay Gould. and operators are buying,
confident Of higher prices.